The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-04-01
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Cows are eheaperin most parts OF Eurcno
than In America, and good milk 10 more
plentiful in populous London than in New
York, or perhaps in any Of our large cities.
| Mr.. K. G. Brown, Of Helena precinct.
Johnson County, reports sort OF in
fueuza, something like the epizootic or pink
| eye In horses, prevailing among people Of
his ne'ghborhOod. They are attacked with
what seems to be severe cold but soon.
manifest the same symptoms seen in cases.
Of pink e.-SyrdeAse Neo) Journal.
From this time on young stock requires.
| special care. The hardest months on cattle.
| are March and April. We feed little or no
grain to stock cattle and farrow cows till
the middle Of March. From that time till
the 10th Of May little corn can be fed to,
the greatest advantage. A little warming
up OF corn will enable them to get the full
| benefit OF grass.-Homestead.
Messrs. Talbot and Guthrie's sale, near
Fairville last Thursday, was one Of tho
| largest affairs Of the kind ever held in the
county. 1t is estimated that there were 7OO
persons present. There were 100 head of
stock sold including five registered Cattle.
| These last brought $50 to Sl6S, being only
yearlings. The horses brought from So to-
$la2 and the mules about Sl30.-NGrshan
(.no.) Progress.
Milk feed for calves may be varied by
putting one or two spOOnfuls Of linseed
meal in water and mixing 1t with enough
milk to give it the right flavor. After two.
or three weeks old sifted oatmeal may be
added. 1t should be given warm. or about
the temperature Of new milk Corn meal
is sure to give calves tho scours, but oa,--
meal. begun moderately, and gradually in
creased. rarely does any harm. Calves,
may often be prOfitably fed until eight or
ten weeks old, using inseed meal and oat-
meal in place Of milk.
Mr.. A. Buck Parkins says that his sheep.
paid him more than forty per cent the past
year. The great drawback in the past Was
the exposure Of the animals to storms and
billiards. without food. Every year hum
dreds OF them perish, rs much from the
want OF feed rs from the exposure to the.
storms. But the man who had feed and
shelter was successful, and derived good
per cent. on his investment. To make the.
sheep business prosper in this country it
requires feed and shelter. With good warm
shelter and little feed the sheep business.
in Western Kansas can be made success.
-"dt"m Valley (Kan.) Sestinei.
A dairy farmer in Massachusetts saws he
fed sugar beets to his cows without think
ing that they would injure the butter or
milk, and that after he had been feeding
them for while, his customers complained
that his butter had a peculiar, strong mot
rancid) flavor, and after a careful examina--
ton he discarded the beets and the butter
was all right. Another Massachusetts.
dairyman says that he has fed from q peck
to half bushel Of beets daily for num-
Der of years. dividing the quantity fed,
giving portion il the morning and the re-
mainder at night, but in both cases after
milking there has been no complaint
Of t;slnt about his milk or butter. Time was
Wien beets formed large part of the
ratiOns Of the dairy cows, but in the DAYS OF
fine. gilt-edged butter, dairymen have to be-
exceedingly careful as to what and how
they feed.